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fava — security advisory

Type: advisorySources: OSVAdvisory ID: UBUNTU-CVE-2022-2514

The time and filter parameters in Fava prior to v1.22 are vulnerable to reflected XSS due to the lack of escaping of error messages which contained the parameters in verbatim.

Products
fava
Affected versions
1.10-2, 1.11-1, 1.14-1, 1.18-1, 1.20.1-1, 1.30.2+dfsg-1
Fixed versions
Not specified
CVEs
CVE-2022-2514
Confirmed fixed CVEs
Not specified
Updated in this feed
31 Oct 2026, 00:40 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

UBUNTU-CVE-2022-2514

core-osv · Original source

Published 25 Jul 2022, 14:15 UTC

The time and filter parameters in Fava prior to v1.22 are vulnerable to reflected XSS due to the lack of escaping of error messages which contained the parameters in verbatim.

osv:UBUNTU-CVE-2022-2514

fava

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fava

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fava

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fava

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fava

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Complete source record
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